100% ENGINEERED & MADE IN USA
About Us
Our Mission Statement
If anything sums up our passion at AeroSouth, it's to Make Flying Affordable Again. We work hard to minimize the cost of materials and labor used in our advanced products. We rarely outsources anything, and when we do, only to local, American-owned companies. We avoid supply chain problems by buying 100% American-made materials and components. We work constantly to streamline all our activities, from processing orders to fabrication, inspections and shipping. For these reasons our prices have not changed significantly since we founded our company a few years ago in Seven Lakes, located in the heart of the beautiful Sandhills Region of the Carolinas. Our goal is that our children and grandchildren can continue to enjoy the wonder of flying on a modest income and for no other reason than fun.
Kent Misegades - President
45+ years experience as aerodynamicist, engineering & manufacturing manager and business owner. Pilot & boating enthusiast since teenage years. Aviation writer, former EAA Chapter President. Husband, father, and grandfather. QB
Benjamin Misegades - VP Engineering
20+ years experience in aviation & vehicle design, engineering & fabrication. Licensed A&P and drone operator. Model airplane and motorsports enthusiast since teenage years. Husband & father.
The Extended AeroSouth Team
Clockwise from lower left: Kent Misegades (President, AeroSouth), Ulli Misegades (Business Manager, AeroSouth), Sven Schaefer (Marketing Consultant, former German Air Force fighter pilot), Susan Krueger (Sky Designs Aero), Carmen Schaefer, Ken Krueger (Sky Designs Aero).
The Extended AeroSouth Team
The Extended AeroSouth Team
Kent and Ulli Misegades with son Timothy, Licensed A&P, member of Global QA Team at GE Aerospace / Jet Engines. Husband & Father.
The AeroSouth Swan
History
Our Crest
Our Crest
Timo Miesegaes was a successful wine merchant in the German city of Bremen in the mid-19th century. As a Deacon of the St. Petri Dom Cathedral in Bremen, his family crest was included among others on the inside wall, where it can be found today. The owner of AeroSouth is a descendant of Timo Miesegaes, one of over 40 different spellings of the unusual name, an early translation of which was 'Swamp-Goose'. The first Misegades to immigrate to America was Heinrich Friedrich Miesegaes, who arrived here in 1844 and quickly started a career as a machinist. Since then, many of the men of the Misegades family have followed in his footsteps as mechanics, machinists, engineers and manufacturers.
Our Crest
Our Crest
Our Crest
Katherine Misegades, a talented member of the greater Misegades family, created this colorful rendering of the Misegades family crest on the occasion of a family reunion, based on the image from the Bremen Cathedral. The swan is a common animal seen on the many lakes and wetlands of northwestern Germany and the northeast of the Netherlands, our ancestors' homeland.
Why a Swan?
The swan is a magnificent creature that is equally at home in the air as on the water. Activities in the air and on the water have been the lifelong passions of AeroSouth owner Kent Misegades - swimming, sailing, canoeing, motor-boating, water skiing, snorkeling, soaring, aerobatics and powered flight - as hobbies and in his professional career as an engineer and teacher. That's why the swan is the perfect symbol for the essence of AeroSouth.
The AeroSouth Logo
Ulli (Ulrike) Misegades, wife of AeroSouth owner and president Kent Misegades, is an award-winning, self-taught portrait artist. Using stylistic elements of Art Nouveau and minimalist brush strokes for simplicity, Ulli created AeroSouth's logo in early 2021, depicting a swan in flight. Alternating red and blue strokes in the wings represent both feathers and battens used on sailboat sails. The colors are tones of dark blue and red, traditionally used in the Old South, Kent's native land.